Ewald Humenberger

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Ewald Humenberger
Player information
birthday 18th September 1967 (age 52)
place of birth Austria
citizenship AustrianAustrian Austrian
height 196 cm
Playing position goalkeeper
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1986-1996 AustriaAustria HC Linz
1996-2000 GermanyGermany TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
2000-2008 AustriaAustria HC Linz
National team
  Games (goals)
AustriaAustria Austria 246 (1)

As of September 17, 2018

Ewald Humenberger (born September 18, 1967 ) is a former Austrian handball goalkeeper and the handball record national player in Austria. In the civilian profession, the trained engineer works as a sales manager for a pump company.

Player career

Ewald Humenberger began his playing career at HC Linz , for whom he played for the first time in the Austrian Bundesliga (then the first division) in 1986. In the meantime he was also active at ATSV Innsbruck . With the Linzers he was three times Austrian champion and cup winner and reached the final in the EHF Cup in 1994 , which was lost to the Spanish club UD Alzira .

In 1996 he moved to the German Bundesliga club TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke , with whom he won the (now abolished) EHF City Cup in 1997 and 1998 . Humenberger played a total of 122 Bundesliga games for East Westphalia before moving back to HC Linz in 2000. After the 2007/08 season, Humenberger ended his career.

He played 246 international matches for the Austrian men's national handball team and scored one goal. Thus, he is by a large margin ahead of Patrick Fölser (218 LS) and Andreas Dittert (203 LS), who has also retired, the record national player in his country. All in all, Ewald Humenberger played more than 1000 competitive and selection games in the 22 years of his career as a first division player.

official

On March 7th, 2008 Ewald Humenberger was elected first vice-president of the Upper Austrian handball association OÖHV.

successes

  • 3 × Austrian champions : 1994, 1995, 1996 (with HC Linz)
  • 3 × ÖHB Cup winners : 1994, 1995, 1996 (with HC Linz)
  • 2 × EHF City Cup winners : 1997 and 1998 (with TuS Nettelstedt)
  • EHF Cup finalist: 1994 (with HC Linz)
  • 246 international matches (1 goal) for Austria
  • 122 Bundesliga games (1 goal) for TuS Nettelstedt
  • More than 660 competitive games for HC Linz and ATSV Innsbruck

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ooehandball.at World goalkeeper brings Linz in world class form, accessed on May 28, 2017
  2. ↑ www.vol.at For Hard it begins in Linz, accessed on May 28, 2017
  3. ↑ oehb.at record player , accessed on April 9, 2018
  4. ↑ www.ooehandball.at Board of Directors accessed on June 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Humenberger, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian handball goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1967